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New strategies and technologies for the safety of navigation in Mediterranean sea See all the presentations of the events! Opening Video – ARGOMARINE, 100 occhi sul mare Political and institutional presentations Opening Presentation – Giampiero Sammuri, President of PNAT Ministery of the Italian Environment on ARGOMARINE – Massimo Avancini The National […]

The head of the Italian Civil Protection Department takes part in the Conference about technology for the safety of navigation. The promotion of the Argomarine project. Isle of Elba, Portoferraio. The Conference held at the De Laugier Centre on Wednesday 21st November about the “New Strategies and technology for the safety of navigation in the […]

21 November 2012 Isle of Elba Centro Culturale De Laugier, Portoferraio With the presence of: Massimo Avancini, Ministery of the Italian Environment Enrico Rossi, Governor Regione Toscana Franco Gabrielli, Chief of Department, Department of the Civil Protection of Italy Pierluigi Cacioppo, General Commander of the Italian Coast Guard Dowload the ARGOMARINE final conference program and […]

From today, anyone who sails the sea for work or passion can download from Google Play a simple mobile application to signal the presence of oil spills at sea. Natural Oil Spill in Zakynthos Island Thanks to the application developed by the Laboratory of Signals and Images (SI-LAB) Institute of Information Science and Technologies, […]

The project is supported by the European Commission under the Transport Theme of the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.

The concept of the ARGOMARINE proposal is the monitoring of the marine traffic due to carriers and commercial ships through environmental sensitive sea areas. This monitoring will be realized by means of sophisticated electronic, geopositioning, and telematic tools connected through a high speed network along with data transmission through suitable data links. Data from different sources will be collected in an independent and remote fashion and sent to a main acquisition and elaboration central unit. Motivation and scope of the Argomarine project is the safe detection, notification and interventions on vessels in emergency situation and the protection of sea and insular environment, endangered by heavy and continuous activities, mainly due to intensive ship traffic, generating a consistent pollution risk.

The envisaged goal is connected to the necessity of precise and punctual pollution control in areas and shores which are, for instance, of particular naturalistic value, and/or are exposed to risk of accidental or even intentional contamination due to their vicinity to industrial or highly densely populated settlements, or crossed by a heavy ship traffic. All the data and the information obtained will be merged and elaborated in a Marine Information System (MIS), i.e. an information system where remote sensing data, field experiment results and estimates from simulation models will be integrated, and tools for data storage and retrieval, data manipulation and analysis, as well as for presentation, will available through a common interface.